How to master any skill using The 4 Stages of Learning 🧠 💭

poetry analysis (for english lit paper 2 months ago)

What are the four stages of learning?

1. Unconscious Incompetence; you don’t know that you don’t know.
2. Conscious Incompetence; you know that you don’t know.
3. Conscious Competence; you work at what you don’t know.
4. Unconscious Competence; you don’t have to think about knowing it.

Unconscious Incompetence

You don’t know that you don’t know.

In the first stage of learning, you’re unaware that you don’t know how to do something. You don’t recognise that you can’t do something.

Conscious Incompetence

You know that you don’t know.

In this stage, you become aware of the fact that you don’t know a certain thing, or you don’t know how to perform a certain skill.

This stage is often known as the rude awakening; when you realise that you actually can’t do something, and you have to learn.

Conscious Competence

You work at what you don’t know.

This is the stage that many people think of when they think of the term learning. In this stage, you’re consciously making…